Improvement in harvesters



Harvester.

Patented Feb. 27, 1866.

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UNITED STATES Fringe ATENT IM PROVEM ENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,851, dated February 27, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN HEss, of Manor township, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement on the Cutting Apparatus on Harvesters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makinga part of this specification, in which Figure 1 shows the endless chain-cutters or sickles, the shaft 8, with its beveled pinion, and notched pulley A, and similar pulleys A with the cover removed. Fig. 2 shows said pulley A and operation of the cogged and combined cutters around said pulleys A A in part. Fig. 3 represents the upper and lower side of the cutter; E, the upper raised side of the blade F. Fig. 4 shows one mode for applying the gearing and platform to constitute a working machine.

The drawings clearly show the construction, the triangular cutters F with a raised and slightly curved back E, having two ears, H, forming an open slot on one end for the reception of the single ear G of the adjoining cutter, which each has at the other end, together with a projecting dog, 6, centrally in the rear of the blade. The ears H G are pierced for a pin, which forms a pivot. They being all of uniform size and thickness are united by pivots to form an endless chain, as shown by Fig. 1. The pulleys A A have a notch at regular intervals for the cogs e on the cutterchain. The pulley A has an upright shaft, 8, and beveled cog-wheel or other kind of gearing to give said pulley a rotary motion of any desired speed in either directiongor with a re- What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction of the cogged cutters E F, substantially as specified, so that they form in themselves the links of an endless chaincutter, when said cutters are used, in combination 'with the notched pulleys A A ar' ranged and operating as described.

BENJAMIN Hess.

Witnesses:

P. DONNELLY, J A0013 STAUFFER. 

